Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Intemperance

Nouns
  • intemperance
  • sensuality, animalism, carnality
  • tragalism
  • pleasure
  • effeminacy, silkiness
  • luxury, luxuriousness
  • lap of pleasure, lap of luxury
  • free living. indulgence
  • high living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgence
  • voluptuousness etc. adj.
  • epicurism, epicureanism
  • sybaritism
  • drug habit. dissipation
  • licentiousness etc. adj.
  • debauchery
  • crapulence. revels, revelry
  • debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies
  • excess, too much. Circean cup. [drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]
  • opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin
  • LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]
  • phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP
  • barbiturates
  • amphetamines, speed [Coll.].
Verbs
  • be intemperate etc. adj.
  • indulge, exceed
  • live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog
  • give a loose to indulgence etc. n.
  • wallow in voluptuousness etc. n.
  • plunge into dissipation. revel
  • rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats
  • slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst
  • swill
  • pamper.
Adjectives
  • intemperate, inabstinent
  • sensual, self-indulgent
  • voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish. Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical
  • bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury
  • indulged, pampered
  • full-fed, high-fed.
Phrases
  • being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].